Still, maybe Foster and the council have decided that enh, go ahead
and let Sternberg look at sites, then they can tell him how much money
he’ll have to pay to get out of his lease early. And then Sternberg can
complain about how he doesn’t have the money to do all this — don’t
forget, not only doesn’t he have a site, but his stadium dream doesn’t
have even the inkling of a funding plan — and it’ll be Tampa’s fault for
not coming up with the money, instead of Foster’s fault for being
obstructionist, or whatever he’s ostensibly doing by holding Sternberg
to his lease. There’d be a risk here — if Sternberg is able to create
some media momentum for a site elsewhere, then there’d be pressure on
Foster to haggle over the price — but maybe Foster feels like he’s tired
of not talking about stadium sites, and would rather not talk about
stadium funding instead.